This unit examines five short stories by Charlotte Perkins Gillman, Kake Chopin, Mark Twain, Stephen Crane, and Edith Wharton. As we examine these works for connections to the literary movements of Realism and Regionalism, we also will be looking at how characters are developed within these stories.
Enduring Understanding:
Social roles, influenced by time and place, are oppressive for the individual.
Essential Questions:
What influences the decisions we make? How does our society form the decisions we are given in our lives? Who determines societal roles and how do societal roles change over time?
Students will show that they can:
Explain mood and tone of text. Explain the impact of imagery on a literary work. Compare and contrast character’s traits and motivations. · Protagonist · Antagonist · Round character · Flat character · Dynamic character · Static character · Motivation - Foil Apply reading strategies to analyze literature: inference. Determine the importance of diction and syntax in a piece: colloquialism and dialect. Feminist Criticism Structuralism & binary opposition Psychoanalytic Criticism
A powerpoint introducing the literary movement of Realism:
Enduring Understanding:
Essential Questions:
Students will show that they can:
Explain mood and tone of text.
Explain the impact of imagery on a literary work.
Compare and contrast character’s traits and motivations.
· Protagonist
· Antagonist
· Round character
· Flat character
· Dynamic character
· Static character
· Motivation
- Foil
Apply reading strategies to analyze literature: inference.
Determine the importance of diction and syntax in a piece: colloquialism and dialect.
Feminist Criticism
Structuralism & binary opposition
Psychoanalytic Criticism
A powerpoint introducing the literary movement of Realism:
and to take notes from the powerpoint ...
Introducing Feminist Theory:
Applying feminist theory to Gillman's "Yellow Wallpaper"
... and Chopin's "The Story of an Hour"
Applying Structuralism and Binary Opposition to Crane's "Mystery of Heroism"